Welcome To Georgetown University!
The Blue & Gray Tour Guide Club in coordination with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has
designed this self-guided walking tour for prospective students, families, and visitors who enjoy the
convenience of walking around Georgetown’s campus at their leisure.
Begin your tour by walking from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions out onto the patio.
The building you have just exited is the White-Gravenor building.
Completed in 1932, the first floors of White-Gravenor house the Office
of Undergraduate Admissions, the Office of the Registrar and the
Dean’s Office of the Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences. The
upper floors contain classroom facilities as well as the offices for
Georgetown’s Psychology Department.
With your back toward White-Gravenor, walk to the right and exit the
White-Gravenor Patio. Proceed left, and walk on the diagonal brick
walkway toward the Front Gates.
The Building on your immediate right as you first enter the walkway is
Copley Hall. Copley is an upper-class residence hall that contains
double occupancy rooms arranged as suites with a shared bath between
two rooms. The first floor contains Copley Formal Lounge. This
lounge is used as a formal reception and dining room for student and
University gatherings.
Continue walking on the brick walkway across the lawn.
The grassy area on your left and right is known as Copley Lawn. Until
1928, this lawn was used as Georgetown’s varsity football and baseball
fields. The stone wall on your left encloses the main campus. The
University, however, extends an additional three blocks past the stone
wall into the neighborhood of Georgetown. Poulton Hall, located on
the opposite side of the stone wall, houses the Center for Social Justice,
Mask and Bauble (a student-led theater organization), and a UPS store.
As you approach the front gates of the University, turn right toward the statue of our founder, John
Carroll.
This statue depicts Archbishop John Carroll, the founder of
Georgetown University. John Carroll received a grant from George
Washington in 1789 to open Georgetown University as the first Catholic
university in the United States.
The building directly behind the John Carroll statue is Healy Hall. Healy
Hall is named after Patrick Healy, S.J., the first African American
president of a non-Historically Black College & University. The
basement of Healy Hall contains the Office of Student Financial
Services while the upper floors contain offices for Campus Ministries, classrooms, the Office of the
President, Riggs Library, the Kennedy Bioethics Library and Gaston Hall, a world renowned lecture
hall.
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As you turn left and make your way along Healy Hall, you will be
headed toward Lauinger Library.
Lauinger Library is the main undergraduate library on Georgetown’s
campus. Lauinger contains 2.3 million bound volumes and is the center
of study on campus. Lauinger Library also has many computer rooms
for students to access the Internet, check e-mail, or work on projects.
Take a right at the iron fence in front of Lauinger Library and walk
down Library Walk.
The complex on the left is Village A. Village A is an upper-classmen
apartment complex. Each apartment houses four students in two
bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and bath. If you are interested in a
spectacular view, climb one of the many sets of Village A stairs to see
downtown Washington, DC and the Potomac River.
Continue your tour by walking down the hill past Village A.
The building just beyond Village A on your left is New South. New
South is a four-story freshman residence hall with two students per
room. It is a co-ed residence hall with single-sex bathrooms and
showering facilities; there is also a sink in each room. This building was
recently renovated in 2003 now features a multipurpose space for
student programs.
Continue down the hill to the Southwest Quadrangle.
The building in front of you is Leo O’Donovan Dining Hall. Seating
625 people per floor, this two story dining complex serves a variety of
foods, enough options to please every palate; selections include
everything from cereal and fresh fruit, to hot meat entrees and
vegetarian selections, to salad bar and soups, and make your own
stations like pizza, pannini, waffle, and made to order sandwiches.
Turn right and walk along side McCarthy Hall.
The building on your left is McCarthy Hall and is part of a complex of
three separate residence halls: McCarthy, Kennedy, and Reynolds. The
entire facility houses approximately 780 students. This residence hall
complex was completed in 2003.
Cross the street and walk up the stairs enclosed in an archway.
This building is Village C. Village C includes two wings, West and East.
The West Wing is a freshmen residence hall. The East Wing houses
transfers and upperclassmen. There are two students in each room and
each room has a full bathroom.
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Walk up the ramp toward the street. Walk into the quadrangle behind
the Healy building with the clock tower.
The first building on your left is Dahlgren Chapel. This is the main
Catholic chapel on campus and seats 250 people. The University also has
a Muslim Prayer Room (Copley Hall) and a Jewish Student Association
House (1318 36th Street.) Protestant services are primarily held in St.
William Chapel (Copley Hall).
Move further into the Quadrangle approaching the Fountain.
This building now on your left is Old North and is the home to the
Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Thirteen sitting U.S. Presidents
have delivered addresses from Old North steps, including Bill Clinton, a
1968 Georgetown graduate.
Turn around and walk back out of the quadrangle toward Village C.
Make a right and walk through the tunnel. Stop at the top of the
staircase.
The nine-story building at the bottom of the stairs is Harbin Hall.
Harbin Hall is a freshman residence hall with mostly double occupancy
rooms. The rooms are arranged in single-sex clusters around common
bathroom and showering facilities.
Notice the cemetery to the right of Harbin.
The cemetery is reserved for Jesuits who have served the University.
When built, the cemetery was in the rear of the University. As
Georgetown continued to grow, the University had to build around the
cemetery.
Continue following the road toward the Main Gates of campus.
The building on your left as you are walking is the new Royden B. Davis,
MBNA Performing Arts Center completed in 2005. This is the home of
the Performing Arts here at Georgetown. Facilities include a large
proscenium theater, a smaller black-box theater, a costume shop, as well
as classroom space.
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Before you reach the statue of John Carroll, make a left and walk in front of Copley Hall until you
reach a to a large brick square. The large brick building with a solar-paneled roof on your left is the
Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC).
The Intercultural Center consists of classrooms, a language learning
center, a computer lab and an auditorium on the first and second floors.
The ICC is also home to the Underclassmen College Dean’s Office as well
as the School of Foreign Service Dean’s Office.
Walk inside the ICC Galleria.
The Galleria of the Intercultural Center is home to the School of Foreign
Service Dean’s office, the Faculty of Language and Linguistics and many
professors’ offices. The upper floors of the Intercultural Center house
offices for the Departments of Government, Economics, Sociology,
History, Linguistics and all foreign languages.
Turn around and exit the Intercultural Center. Take a left and walk through the brick archway and
proceed up the stairs. Continue down the walkway.
The building on the left is the Reiss Science Building. This building
contains classrooms, science labs, a nuclear accelerator vault, and a
greenhouse. The offices of the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and
Physics are housed in the Reiss Science Building.
A new state-of-the-art science facility is currently under construction. It
will be located behind the Reiss Science Building and is slated to be
complete in the fall of 2012.
Pass the Reiss Science Building. Climb the stairs that lead to the entrance of the Leavey Student
Center. Enter the Student Center.
The Student Center is a multi-purpose facility that contains several
restaurants, a fast-food area, a hotel and conference center, and the
University Bookstore. The Leavey Center also is the home to the
Students of Georgetown, Inc., the largest fully student-operated nonprofit organization in the country. Know as The Corp. the organization
runs a grocery store, a number of coffee shops throughout campus, and
a shipping and storage service. The Leavey Center also houses the
Career Education Center – a valuable resource for Georgetown students
looking for an internship or job. The Georgetown University Alumni
and Student Federal Credit Union, the largest independent student-run
financial institution in the country with over $12 million in assets, is also
based in the Leavey Center.
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Continue past the University Bookstore to the left, proceed through
Sellinger Lounge, and continue down the hallway past the Faculty
Club. Exit the building onto the patio in front of the Rafik B.
Hariri Building.
Completed in the summer of 2009, the Rafik B. Hariri Building is
the newest facility on the Georgetown campus, housing all
graduate and undergraduate programs in the McDonough School
of Business. The beautiful new space includes offices for faculty
and administration, community space, high-tech case study and
lecture rooms, and a large lecture hall.
Proceed back into the Leavey Center, past the Faculty Club, through Selling Lounge, and back to
the main entrance of the building. As you exit the Leavey Center, take a left at the bottom of the
stairs to visit Henle Village, Darnall Hall and St. Mary’s Hall.
The apartment complex on your right is Henle Village. Henle Village contains four and five-person
apartments with full kitchens and bathrooms. Past Henle Village on the right is Darnall Hall. Darnall
Hall is a six-floor residence hall of double occupancy rooms for freshman. Just past Darnall Hall on
the right is St. Mary’s Hall, home to the Georgetown School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) as
well as the Departments of Math and Computer Science.
Henle Village
Darnall Hall
St. Mary’s Hall
We hope you have enjoyed your tour of the Georgetown Campus. If you have any
questions, please call us at (202) 687-3600 or consult our web page at
http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu.
Any Questions? E-mail a tour guide at georgetownblueandgray@gmail.com
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